Lena River#Lena Delta

The Lena Delta is the extensive delta of the Lena River in Siberia in the Russian Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia), is a 45,000 km ² area of the largest river deltas in the world.

Geographical location

The Lena Delta is an average of slightly more than 600 km north of the Arctic Circle and reaches 150 km in the Laptev Sea in, a marginal sea of ​​the Arctic Ocean (also called the Arctic Ocean ). To the south of the delta lie the Northern foothills of Verkhoyansk Mountains and southwest are the Czekanowskiberge. Between the two mountain ranges through the coming of South Lena flows into the Delta.

Within the estuary, the water first flows around the island Lena Stolb, a Härtling, which was separated by the water from the Charaulachrücken. In the course of the Lena Delta by numerous islands, lakes and subsections is characterized, which continuously change their outlines.

History

For the first time the Lena Delta was (also called Great Northern Expedition ) during the Second Kamchatka under the Russian explorer and Arctic explorer Vasily Prontschischtschew ( 1702-1736 ) described in August 1735 and mapped.

Navigability

Three navigable main strands run in the Lena Delta to the Arctic Ocean: Olenjokskaja ( west ), Trofimowskaja (center) and Bykowskaja ( east ). The greatest significance of Bykowskaja 130 km in length, as the ships go through this strand to the situated on the southern edge of the Delta Tiksibucht, located on the shores of Yakutia 's main port Tiksi.

Reserves

In the Lena Delta, the Nature Reserve Ust- Lensky is ( 14,330 km ²) and the majority of Russia's largest nature reserve, the Lena Delta Reserve ( 60,000 km ²). There live many rare water birds.

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• Lena river system
• Geography (Asia)
• River Delta
• Laptev Sea